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Its goal is to scale and enhance the high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure that supports its clients' research, production, and delivery, enabling breakthroughs that shape the industries of tomorrow. Its engineers build critical infrastructure to eliminate friction in scientific research, simulations, analysis, and decision-making, accelerating discovery and driving faster innovation.\nThe role\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer who is equally at home writing clean Python and reasoning about BGP - someone who has designed and built the tools and services that enable automated, scalable, and self-service networking across global infrastructure.\nIn this role, you will leverage your expertise in networking and software engineering to automate the provisioning and management of complex data center network environments. 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You will own meaningful projects end-to-end, from design through production.\nResponsibilities:\nDesign, build, and maintain automation frameworks that simplify network provisioning and lifecycle management across global infrastructure.\n\nContribute to architectural design discussions, ensuring automation is built for long-term maintainability and scalability.\n\nDevelop software in Python and leverage tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Jinja2 to implement software-driven network designs/IaC practices.\n\nIntegrate network automation into CI/CD pipelines, enabling testable, repeatable, and reliable deployments.\n\nBuild APIs and tooling to expose networking capabilities as self-service interfaces for engineering teams.\n\nImplement observability and telemetry workflows for network performance and availability using modern monitoring stacks.\n\nCollaborate with Network Engineering, Security, and Platform teams to deliver resilient and scalable automation solutions.\n\nParticipate in on-call rotations, contributing to incident response, root cause analysis, and ongoing reliability improvements.\n\nRequirements:\nProven experience spanning software development and network engineering, with direct ownership of automation and tooling projects.\n\nStrong programming skills in Python and solid software engineering fundamentals - testing, version control, CI/CD, code review.\n\nExperience with API design, service integration, or platform engineering.\n\nFamiliarity with service discovery, secrets management, policy-as-code frameworks.\n\nDeep understanding of computer networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancing, and network security concepts.\n\nHands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Jinja2).\n\nExpertise in cloud native technologies including containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).\n\nFamiliarity with distributed system concepts: microservice architecture, data consistency, fault tolerance strategies, security, and observability patterns.\n\nStrong problem-solving skills and comfort navigating ambiguity - you take ownership and drive projects to completion.\n\nAbility to collaborate effectively in cross-functional, agile engineering teams, and flexibility to adapt to fast-changing technical environments.\n\nPreferred:\nExperience with relational, NoSQL, or graph databases - we use a mix depending on the problem.\n\nKnowledge of event-driven or message-based architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ).\n\nUnderstanding of large-scale data center networking concepts and vendor ecosystems (Cisco, Arista, Juniper) and technologies such as segment routing, multitenant network designs.\n\nDeep understanding of routing, switching, firewalls, core protocols (BGP, OSPF, VRF, VLAN, ACL, firewall object groups etc.) and infrastructure design principles.\n\nExperience applying ML or AI techniques to infrastructure problems - for example predictive analytics, anomaly detection, or automated remediation workflows.\n\nPrior contributions to open-source networking or automation projects.\n\nIt is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.\nMust be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.\nBenefits & Perks:\nCompany-Paid Lunch Stipend: Lunch is provided via GrubHub\n\nCompany-Paid Benefits: 100% Employer-Paid Medical in our High Deductible Health Plan, Dental and Vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Life insurance, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability\n\n401(k): Company will match 100% of your contributions up to 6%\n\nOptional Employee-Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more.\n\nTime Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays\n\n EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER\nNORTHMARK STRATEGIES LLC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. 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